SCOTTISH model Kirsty Hume is returning to the catwalk at the age of 38 – more than a decade after she largely dropped out of the fashion scene.

Kirsty plans to return home to Scotland after her divorce with Donovan Leitch last year

The Ayrshire-born beauty, who became the face of Chanel at 19, is also planning to return to Scotland after living in the US for more than 20 years.

Last year Kirsty filed for divorce from her husband Donovan Leitch, the actor/musician son of Scottish folk and pop star Donovan.

The couple married at Luss on Loch Lomondside in 1997 and set up home at Woodstock in upstate New York. But Kirsty has more recently been based mainly in Los Angeles.

She has now resolved to give her daughter Violet, 10, who is herself getting modelling work, some of the traditional upbringing that she enjoyed.

I spent 10 years very focused on my daughter and now I’ve begun thinking, ‘What do I want to do for the next 10 years?

Kirsty Hume

Kirsty said: “Being in LA contributed to the perception I was retiring from fashion because I was just that much further away from the hub and everything that was happening.

“I spent 10 years very focused on my daughter and now I’ve begun thinking, ‘What do I want to do for the next 10 years?”

The former Woolworths assistant, who signed up with a Glasgow modelling agency at 14, said: “I’m ready to leave LA and I think a lot about coming home to Scotland. I’m sad that my daughter is growing up with no sense of my culture.”

Kirsty has just starred in a new ad campaign for Jaeger alongside her teenage cousin, Samantha Davidson.

She said the Jaeger campaign had also set her thinking about home, adding: “I wanted to wait for the right project to come along before I jumped back in. I still feel very connected to my roots and in some ways I felt that my history is Jaeger’s history.

“I’ve always loved textiles and Jaeger’s origins are in natural fibres. Some of the styles are produced in Scotland, with Johnston’s of Elgin. It felt right.”

Underscoring her ambition to relaunch her career, Kirsty hit the runway in New York last week and has hinted she may appear at London Fashion Week, which started on Friday.